Aeroheating Design Issues for Reusable Launch （可重复使用的发射Aeroheating设计问题）.pdf

34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference AIAA-2004-2535 28 June – 1 July, 2004, Portland, Oregon Aeroheating Design Issues for Reusable Launch Vehicles -- A Perspective ∗ † ‡ E. Vincent Zoby , Richard A. Thompson , and Kathryn E. Wurster NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681 An overview of basic aeroheating design issues for Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV), which addresses the application of hypersonic ground-based testing, and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) and engineering codes, is presented. Challenges inherent to the prediction of aeroheating environments required for the successful design of the RLV Thermal Protection System (TPS) are discussed in conjunction with the importance of employing appropriate experimental/computational tools. The impact of the information garnered by using these tools in the resulting analyses, ultimately enhancing the RLV TPS design is illustrated. A wide range of topics is presented in this overview; e.g. the impact of flow physics issues such as boundary-layer transition, including effects of distributed and discrete roughness, shock- shock interactions, and flow separation/reattachment. Also, the benefit of integrating experimental and computational studies to gain an improved understanding of flow phenomena is illustrated. From computational stud